27 Aug
2012
27 Aug
'12
10:10 a.m.
On 8/27/12 10:00 AM, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012, Jim Brain wrote:
Could you at least spell Tim's last name correctly? It is 'Paterson'.
And a recent code analysis indicates that QDOS was not stolen from CP/M -
http://m.spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-steal-the-hear…
If he didn't copy it from CP/M, why isn't it a "new OS"?
alan
>Can you cite some sources for this position?
Sources I have note that
>Patterson wrote a new OS to go with the Seattle Computer Products 8086
>kit and used CP/Ms API to aid in porting apps, but the internals were
>significantly different. If true, I'm not sure I'd call that a
"port".
>If so, then Linux is a "port" of BSD or ATT UNIX.
I will concede
that "port" is a poor choice of terms.
Patterson wrote it as a placeholder. The intent was that they would go to
CP/M-86 when that was ready, and QDOS ("Quick and Dirty Operating System")
was intended as a temporary substitute until then. So, I'm hesitant to
call it a "new OS"